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Cuba opens Int'l Book Fair
Feb 14,2014
HAVANA, Feb. 13 (Xinhua) -- Cuba on Thursday opened an International Book Fair with Ecuador as the guest country of honor.
Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa has announced to present at the fair his book "Ecuador: From Banana Republic to the non-Republic."
Ecuador brought more that 10,000 books to the event.
The book fair will be held in Havana till Feb. 23 before it travels around Cuba until its close on March 9 in the eastern city of Santiago de Cuba.
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Zorro
(15,691 posts)whether Rafael, Raul, and Fidel will take the opportunity at the book fair to issue a statement in support of the Venezuelan government gassing its citizens.
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(17,751 posts)Oakland, Ca.
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Mika
(17,751 posts)Over 700 New Book Titles at upcoming International Havana Book Fair
Some 160 word personalities will attend the fair, including 120 writers, plus 130 exhibitors who have already rented 2 thousand 622 square meters at the exhibit ground at Havana´s San Carlos de la Cabana Fortress, right on the side of the Havana harbor.
The fair´s program includes for the first time a colloquium on anthropology and archeology, with outstanding Ecuadorian, Mexican and Cuban experts in the field.
The exhibit and sales of books will also take place in different areas of downtown Havana, such as the University of Havana and other cultural institutions.
The fair, which aims at promoting national and foreign literature, will pay homage this year to outstanding Cuban poetess Gertrudis Gomez de Avellaneda in her 200th birthday anniversary and to the 100th anniversary of Cuban Samuel Feijo and Onelio Jorge Cardoso.
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